One year later: Trust hard to come by, fear of retaliation is real in Pike County

One year later: Trust hard to come by, fear of retaliation is real in Pike County

The totals: 8 dead, 4 crimes scenes, 32 bullets.

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Updated: 7:26 AM EDT Apr 21, 2017

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WEBVTT KARIN: IN RURAL PIKE COUNTY,FLOWERS ARE IN BLOOM, BIRDSCHIRP AWAY AND SPREAD THEIRWINGS. SEASONS HAVE COME AND GONE.BUT AS MID SPRING APPROACHES, ASENSE OF EERINESS LINGERS IN THEAIR.LOCALS SUM UP THE PAST YEAR WITHONE WORD. >> HELL.IT'S BEEN HELL, ALL THE TIME. IT'S BEEN THE WORST.KARIN: TEARS HAVE BECOME THENORM FOR WHITNEY GALLOWAY.HER BEST FRIEND, HANNAH GILLEY,WAS AMONG THE EIGHT PEOPLEMURDERED HERE.>> RIGHT BEFORE EVERYTHING, WEGOT BEST FRIEND SHIRTS.KARIN: THEY HAD PLANS TO GOFISHING, TAKE MORE SELFIES, ANDDRIVE AROUND TOWN, OF COURSEWITH HANNAH'S SIX MONTH OLD SONRUGER IN TOW.>> SHE'D DO ANYTHING FOR RUGER,ANYTHING.KARIN: RUGER WAS ONE OF THETHREE CHILDREN FOUND AT THECRIME SCENES THAT THE KILLERSDIDN'T HARM.HE WAS FOUND LYING IN BETWEENHIS MOTHER AND FATHER'S DEADBODIES.HANNAH AND HER FIANCE FRANKIERHODEN WERE JUST 20-YEARS-OLD. THEY WERE SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES INTHE HEAD. >> I GO UP TO HER GRAVE AND I GOUP TO FRANKIE'S GRAVE.I'LL BE OK FOR THE FIRST FEWMINUTES, BUT WHEN I HAVE TOLEAVE, I GET REALLY SAD.REALLY SAD.KARIN: AT THE TRAILER NEXT DOORTO HANNAH AND FRANKIE'S,CHRISTOPHER RHODEN SENIOR ANDHIS COUSIN GARY RHODEN HAD ALSOBEEN KILLED.A MILE DOWN UNION HILL ROAD,ANOTHER BLOODY SCENE. INVESTIGATORS FOUND THE BODIESOF DANA RHODEN AND HER TWOTEENAGE KIDS, CHRIS JUNIOR ANDHANNAH RHODEN.AND EIGHT MILES AWAY, DOWN AREMOTE GRAVEL ROAD, KENNETHRHODEN HAD BEEN EXECUTED.EIGHT DEAD, FOUR CRIMES SCENES,32 BULLETS.A YEAR LATER, NO ARRESTS.>> HOW CAN YOU KILL EIGHT PEOPLEAND NOT KNOW WHO DID IT?IT JUST BLOWS MY MIND.KARIN: INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY'VERECIEVED 883 TIPS AND CONDUCTED465 INTERVIEWS.THEY BELIEVE THERE ARE MULTIPLEKILLERS.>> I SAID I FEEL LIKE THEY ARELOCAL TO THE AREA AND I HAVENOT BELIEVE.KARIN: INVESTIGATORS SAYMARIJUANA GROW OPERATIONS WEREFOUND AT TWO OF THE 4 CRIMESCENES, CHRIS SENIOR'S HOUSE ANDKENNETH RHODEN'S HOME.BUT THEY WON'T CONFIRM IF DRUGSWAS THE MOTIVE TO KILL.THOSE CLOSE TO THE VICTIMS SAYTHEY CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER IFTHE MURDERERS ARE STILL LIVINGAMONG THEM.>> FOR ALL I KNOW, IT COULD'VEBEEN SOMEONE WHO CAME UP ANDHUGGED ME AT THE FUNERAL.I DO NOT TRUST ANYBODY AT ALL.KARIN: TRUST, HARD TO COME BYOUT HERE.ON THE PERIMETER OF WHAT BEENSAID TO HAVE BEEN THE BLOODIESTSCENE, CHRIS SENIOR'S HOME, THERHODEN NAME REMAINS CARVED INTOTHE SIDE OF A MAILBOX.%NO TRESSPASSING SIGNS HANG FROMBOB WIRE FENCE, BUT NOW WHERE AFAMILY ONCE LIVED ONLY DETACHEDPORCHES REMAIN.THE TRAILERS WERE HAULED AWAY ASEVIDENCE.A FEW PIECES OF CRIME SCENE TAPEAND A TATTERED FLYER ON THE BARNWITH THE VICTIM'S FACES, THEONLY REMNANTS OF THE CRIMESCOMMITTED HERE.>> I WANT IT TO GET SOLVED BUT IJUST DON'T.IT HAS BEEN HERE.I'M TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE

One year later: Trust hard to come by, fear of retaliation is real in Pike County

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"Hell. It's been hell, all the time. It's been the worst," Whitney Galloway said as she wiped her eyes with a tissue.

Tears have become the norm for Galloway.

Her best friend, Hannah Gilley, was among the eight people murdered.

"Right before everything, we got best friend shirts," Galloway said. "If you needed her she was there."

She and Gilley had plans to wear matching hats and go fishing. They wanted to take more selfies and drive around town, of course with Gilley's 6-month-old son Ruger in tow.

"She'd do anything for Ruger, anything," Galloway said.

Ruger was one of the three children found at the crime scenes that the killers didn't harm. He was found lying between the bodies of his mother and father.

Gilley and her fiance, Frankie Rhoden, were just 20 years old. They were shot multiple times in the head.

"I go up to her grave, and I go up to Frankie's grave. I'll be OK for the first few minutes, but when I have to leave, I get really sad, really sad," Galloway said.

At the trailer next door to Gilley and Frankie Rhoden's, Christopher Rhoden Sr. and his cousin Gary Rhoden had also been killed.

A mile down Union Hill Road, there was another bloody scene. Investigators found the bodies of Dana Rhoden and her two teenage kids, Chris Rhoden Jr. and Hanna Rhoden.And 8 miles away, down a remote gravel road, Kenneth Rhoden had been executed.

The totals: eight dead, four crimes scenes, 32 bullets. A year later, there have been no arrests.

"How can you kill eight people and not know who did it? It just blows my mind," Galloway said.

Investigators said they've received 883 tips and conducted 465 interviews.

They said they believe there are multiple killers.

"I said I feel like they are local to the area, and I have that belief," Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader said.

Investigators said marijuana grow operations were found at two of the four crime scenes, Chris Senior's house and Kenneth Rhoden's home, but they won't confirm if drugs was the motive to kill.

Those close to the victims say they can't help but wonder if the homicides are still living among them.

"For all I know, it could have been someone who came up and hugged me at the funeral," Galloway said. "I don't trust anybody at all."

Trust is hard to come by in Pike County.

"The fear of retaliation from whoever these killers are, that's real and people feel that," Reader said.

On the perimeter of what been said to have been the bloodiest scene, Chris Rhoden Sr.'s home, the Rhoden name remains carved into the side of a mailbox.

No trespassing signs hang from barbed wire fence.

But now where a family once lived, only detached porches remain. The trailers were hauled away as evidence.

A few pieces of crime scene tape and a tattered flyer on the barn with the victim's faces are the only remnants of the crimes committed here.

"I'm trying to get through the fact that it might not get solved," Galloway said.

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the killers. Anyone with information shouldcall the Bureau or Criminal Investigation at 1-855-BCI-OHIO or the Sheriff's Office at 740-947-211.